The Greengage Summer
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On and off, all that hot French August, we made ourselves ill from eating the greengages ...
The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by high walls; Eliot, the charming Englishman who became the children's guardian while their mother lay ill in hospital; sophisticated Mademoiselle Zizi, hotel patronne, and Eliot's devoted lover; 16 year-old Joss, the oldest Grey girl, suddenly, achingly beautiful. And the Marne river flowing silent and slow beyond them all ... They would merge together in a gold-green summer of discovery, until the fruit rotted on the trees and cold seeped into their bones ...
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